Bill DeMain

Johnny Cash's iconic version of Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt was nothing if not unlikely, but the Man In Black was no stranger to unlikely cover versions

Almost 20 years into their career, Spoon are back with album number 10 and a playlist that helped inspire it

Stevie Ray Vaughan, every John Lee Hooker album, the entire genre of gospel, and much more: these are the albums that changed Eric Gales' life

Ousted from Fleetwood Mac, guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham bounced back with one of our albums of 2021, but he’s still hopeful that he can make one more record with the Mac

The Barenaked Ladies are back with a new album – and the frontman’s secret project with Geddy Lee “that I can’t talk about”

Country-rockers Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real on close encounters with marine life, backing Neil Young and continuing a family tradition

Half a century on, Don McLean's folk-rock anthem about the souring of the American Dream continues to confound and inspire

The Bobby Fuller Four looked set for greatness after I Fought The Law hit the US Top 10, but within six months Fuller was dead

Eric Church, country-rock superstar, returns with a triple album, optimism for future gigs, and thoughts on *that* controversial interview

Forty years ago, Stevie Nicks stepped out from the chaos and control of Fleetwood Mac with a hit-laden debut solo album that showed she could fly just as high on her own

Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson talks guitars, the new solo album You And Me, and her surprise choice for the most underrated guitarist of all time

Putting Sgt. Pepper's iconic album's iconic artwork under the microscope to discover the weird, the wonderful, and what Sonny Liston thought of Ringo's drumming

In the year of Star Wars, Pink Floyd’s former engineer Alan Parsons was creating his own barmy sci-fi masterpiece, I Robot

How a young David Bowie’s artistic manifesto was captured in the three and a half perfect minutes of Changes

How London’s famous clock tower and a Jimi Hendrix groupie inspired his last great song, Dolly Dagger

David Bowie had everything to prove, but backed by his greatest band and produced by the engineer for The Beatles, he made his first classic album, Hunky Dory

Inspired by a single line from a gospel song, Paul Simon's classic Bridge Over Troubled Water has been covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to Aretha Franklin

After the minimalism of his ‘Berlin trilogy’, David Bowie went all out for a kitchen-sink art-rock album on Scary Monsters

How a song from Tom Petty’s reject pile unwittingly became a Petty/Nicks duet, and the massive hit single that launched the Fleetwood Mac icon’s solo career

The Allman Brothers Band spent the best part of 50 years ‘hittin’ the note’, with just a few clunkers. Here are some of the sweet spots of their catalogue

Released 50 years ago, Ladies Of The Canyon marked the moment when Joni Mitchell went from folk princess to pop star

In January 1970, Jimi Hendrix pulled the plug on stardom to chase a funkier, freer direction with his Band Of Gypsys. This is their story

Songwriter, producer, singer, multi-instrumentalist… Todd Rundgren's is a diverse and distinguished catalogue from a restless and progressive artist

Janis Joplin’s transition from band member to solo diva (including her only solo album released in her lifetime) was fraught with power plays, ego trips and excessive drug use